As usual, Andrea gave me a good idea. Take a picture of my bear. This is Pooh in case you don’t recognize him. He has been in my life for about 37 years, which is pretty amazing when you consider that I have lived in about 25 different places and few remnants of my childhood [...]

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Want to learn more about the philosophy of unschooling, but not in to reading non-fiction? Well, Dayna has solved that riddle for you by making a series of short conversational pieces on unschooling and slapping them on Youtube. True democracy at work people! Visit here and enjoy.
Might I add that Dayna was on the Dr. [...]

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(in which the professor is bested in charms by a bunch of first years.)
Well, we’re back from the conference, a day early in fact. This is mainly because we met a stranger in the hallway who was fleeing and said to us “The worst storm of the year is coming!” Which led us to trust [...]

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One podcast always is on my player, regardless of the day or mood. It is Quirky Nomads. Sage is funny, versatile, political, proactive and always has something new to share. If you’d like to try out her podcast, this is one you should listen to, her interview with a girl at a local Sudbury school [...]

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(The birthday girl enjoys her birth right, playing in snow in mid-February)
Happy golden pig year. Happy birthday to my ween. Sorry I’ve been neglecting you, but the big conference is coming up this week, and we are busily volunteering our way to conference success. Details will be forthcoming if I get all of my to [...]

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One phenomenon it seems that most parents have mastered is outsourcing their kids’ education, and homeschoolers are no exception. While most kid’s official education is outsourced to a school, we all know that children learn a great deal, perhaps even most things, at home and through daily life. Think of the 3-year-old in your [...]

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Ugh. I’ve had a headache for two days and there is a mountain of pre-visit cleaning to do. It has been sub-zero here for over a week and I think deep winter has reached my brain. I’m starting to wish I had one of those full-spectrum lights again. When face to face with actual human [...]

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I’m a nervous flyer in the aeroplanes. So, my pal Lori taught me how to crochet just before a flight, and I discovered that frantically crocheting took my mind to some other zone where death was not a concern. Shortly after creating the plane hat (top right and bottom left) requests came in from the [...]

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(See the palm tree? Imagine lying under it, listening to the sounds of the ocean waves, while you sip warm coconut milk….have you escaped the bone-crunching winds and taunting snow pellets now? Me neither.)
Looks like today will consist mainly of cleaning furiously for my in-laws visit, and hiding in doors from the brutally cold winds. [...]

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